SPEAKING TOPICS AND QUESTIONS FOR GRADE 8 THI DIEM HKI PHIEU VA GOI Y

1/ Talk about your favourite leisure activity.

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What
How
What
How

ts it.
you do it.
benefit/negetive effects it bring you.
to solve the negative.

2/ Describe the countryside you have lived or visited.
, Where is it.

, When/How you visited.
, Who you went with.
,What you did there. How you felt.

3/ Talk about an ethnic group.
, Located.

, Population.
, Production activities.
, Festivals/famous for.

4/ Talk about custom and tradition.
, In your family.
, In your country.

, What you think should be continue.
, What you think should be break down. Why.

5/ Talk about a festival in your hometown.

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What it is.
When/Where ts it held?
What activities there are.
What you need/what you need.


TOPICS SPEAKING FOR GRADE 8- THE FIRST SEMESTER
TOPIC 1
LEISURE ACTIVITY
* Playing table tennis is one of my leisure activities. It is interesting and useful.
— I can play table tennis in my free time. My body becomes stronger because playing it is good
for my health.
— Whenever I have free time, I can play table tennis with my father or my mother.
— I like to play table tennis after school because it helps me relax after a hard day.
— I really enjoy playing table tennis.
* Cáu hỏi gợi ý

1. What do you often do in your free time?
- Reading books is one of favourite leisure activities. I often read books in my free time.
2. How much leisure time do you have a day?
- | have leisure time twice a day, in the morning and in the afternoon.
3. What is your favorite leisure activity?
- Reading books is one of favourite leisure activities. I often read books in my free time.
4. Talk about your favorite leisure activity.
- Describe the leisure activity.
- Say who do you do this activity with.
- Share your feeling about the activity.
TOPIC ?:
LIFE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
* Talk about the life in the countryside:
* T think, the countryside has benefits that a boring person would never discover.
There is so much space. We can run around the vast field and shout out loud without
disturbing anybody.
We can swim in the river, go fishing or collec vegetables in the afternoon or in the summer..
Morever, we can enjoy the fresh air and peaceful space. They bring us a good mental.
Life in the countryside is intersting.
* Câu hỏi gợi ý
1. Where do you live?
- My name is ...I live in....... with my parents. My father isa....... My mother 1s a.......
2. Do you like living in the city or in the countryside?
- I like living in the countryside. I often visit my grandmother. It is intersting to live there because
there are so much space. We can run around the vast field and shout out loud without disturbing
anybody. We can swim in the river, go fishing or collect vegetables in the afternoon or in the
summer. However, there is no internet to surf for my projects and studying. There are no shops to
buy somethings. It takes a lot of time because shops are far away. Besides, there’s almost nothing
to do at night. No nightclubs, no bars and no amusement parks
3. Why do you like living there?

4. Talk about the things you like and dislike about life in the city.
You should say:
The facilities there.
The people there.
The environment there.
TOPIC 3
PEOPLES OF VIETNAM
* Talk about your cultural group in Vietnam (Noi vé nhém dân tộc của bạn ở Việt Nam)
Our country has 54 ethnic groups. The Thai is one of ethnic groups in the provinces of Lai
Chau, Son LA, Yen Bai, Thanh Hoa

and Nghe An.

Their language belongs to The Tay-Thai group.
The Thai are good at farming. They grow different crops. The main food is rice, espeacilly
sticky rice.


Thai cloth is well-known for being unique, colourful and strong. Thai men like to wear The
Kinh’s style of dress, but Thai womenn keep their tradition costums. They live in stilts houses.
The Thai worrship their ancestors. They hold festivals and ceremornies every year.
*Câu hỏi gợi ý
TOPIC 4:
OUR CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS
* Talk about your family custom and traditions.
In my opinion, customs and tradition are very important. Like orther family, we have
our own traditions and customs.
There is a tradition in our family of having lunch together on the first day on Tet. We have
followed this for three generation.
We have the custom of going out for having meals at the weekend. .We don’t

We visit our grandparents at the weekend.
We hope that these customs and traditions are still lastly because it makes us closer
and friendly.

* Câu hỏi gợi ý
1. Talk about custom and tradition.
In your country.
Acording to tradition in our country, we shouldn’t sweep the floor on the first day of Tet.
We have to respect old people and children should take things from aldults with both hands and
greet guests when they come toour house.
- What you think should be continue.
- What you think should be break down. Why.
TOPIC 5: FESTIVALS IN VIETNAM
I like the Hung King Temple Festivals a lot. It is held in PhuTho province from the 8" to
11" of the third lunar month every year.
It is held to worship the Hung Kings who are the founders and also the first emperors of the
nation.
It’s impressive because there is a procession from the foot of Nghia Linh Mountain to the
High Temple on the top of the mountain.
While you are there, you can attend a ceremony of offering incense and specialities such as
Chung cakes, Day Cakes and five-fruit trays to the Hung Kings. Moreover, there are also some
great activities such as bamboo swings, lion dances, wrestling and xoan singing performances.
I like this festival because it makes me love our ancestors. I also like it because there is a
lot of great activity.
*Cau hoi goiy
Talk about a festival in your hometown.
- What it is.
- When/Where is it held?
- What activities there are?
- What you need/what you need.

Whale Festival is usually held at Quang Nam coastal locations such as Tam Thanh, Binh
Minh, Tam Hai. For the occasion, the Whale Temple, the houses and the boats are all beautifully
decorated.
The festival lasts for two days at the full moon of the first lunar month. This is a festival to
worship the whale and pray for the good fortune of the fishermen in Quang Nam.
The festival includes activities like the twirling the basket, boat races, swings, and football

competitions, plus special dancing and singing performances including ‘tuong’, ‘ho khoan’ singing
and “ba trao’ singing.